Chapter 112 - Ch112. Northern Shores 2
The Third Mizukage was staring at his new, opened Bingo Book with his mouth opened in disbelief as cold sweat ran down his temple at the chilling realization of what exactly seeing the new and only SS-rank Iwa entry into the Bingo Book ant.
"That f.u.c.ker made i into SS-rank ninja..." He breathlessly muttered under his breath, still unable to comprehend how a thirteen years old girl can be given a rank only those like Hashirama or Madara deserved. The only reason these two titans of the Shinobi World weren't ranked as such was that the Bingo Book was not a thing in their era. And yet... i Terumi, a genin from his village, was the first-ever SS-rank in Bingo Book. Oh, he knew he should probably be happy but... 'F.u.c.k! If Rei and Konan managed to train i to destroy an army of ten thousand people then how strong must he be? I might have been severely underestimating them!' The Mizukage shivered as plans were discarded and new ones were being created in his mind.
"What is it, dear?" He suddenly heard Hino's voice as she entered their shared cabin on the boat in which they currently sailed to the Land of Fire. The Mizukage found himself montarily speechless so he opted to simply hand her the Bingo Book without even looking at her so she could find out herself. Hino just raised her eyebrow in surprise when she read through the page and chuckled. "Well, that makes any political play a moot point and this war suddenly got a helluva lot more dangerous. Now we will probably be targeted just for having SS-ranked ninja..." She said as her eyes narrowed at the Mizukage. "You know the best and most rational thing to do here is to retreat from every front and hole up in our little island, right?
"Yes." The Mizukage stated blankly.
"From your tone, I presu we are not doing the most logical thing..." Hino rubbed her forehead in exasperation. "The Hidden Villages are too preoccupied with killing each other that they just might do nothing about this despite the war raging on which is giving them free rein to attack us whenever they want without giving a flying f.u.c.k about a proper reason. I an, co on! This brings an enormous target above the entire Land of Water! There is a reason why most nations dispose of their most unruly S-rankers! i was given a rank above even that..." Hino tried to persuade the Mizukage but when she looked at his impassive expression as he stared in front of himself with determination, she could only groan in irritation. "You really sure we are not retreating?"
"Yes..." The Mizukage gave a small, almost unnoticeable nod, still not looking at her in his stubbornness. Hino knew deep down he felt ashad for prioritizing his revenge rather than the village but she would not stop him. She loved the man too much to do that.
"Great..." Hino only sarcastically quipped before releasing an exasperated sigh. "I guess I am going to check the preparations once more. Just wanted to give you heads-up that our fleet will be arriving at the shores of the Land of Fire in a day." She said before storming out of the cabin.
The Mizukage showed a small loving smile at her antics, feeling heartfelt gratitude for her loyalty and never-ending patience she showered him in.
'And so it finally begins.'
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A day passed and the fleet finally arrived at its final destination. The sh.i.p.s were anchored a kiloter away from the shore and the Kiri forces numbering ten thousand ninjas of all ranks were ready.
The shore looked peaceful and empty, not even the slightest sign of enemy could be spotted anywhere so the Kiri forces jumped from the boats onto the water, dead-set on walking on the water for the last kiloter of their long journey through the sea. The Mizukage himself was leading the forces with Hino running by his side towards the land.
The Kiri ninjas were not vigilant. After all, none of them thought they would be attacked. The invasion was supposed to be the most guarded secret and at this point, it was too early for a battle. Alas...
The Kiri front-liners of the forces were crossing the last hundred ters of water, about to finally reach the shore when suddenly a big puff of smoke burst out from the woods a bit away from the shore and the Kiri ninjas found stopped in their tracks from sheer bewildernt at the massive toad staring at them in amus.e.m.e.nt while smoking its pipe.
The Mizukage managed to only curse under his nose before he heard...
"Fire Release: Toad Oil Fla Bullet!"
Mizukage's hands instinctively started weaving seals before he could even comprehend what was going on as the massive toad started spitting toad oil in the direction of the front-liners of the Kiri force while a white-haired man standing on the top of the toad spat fire into the oil, igniting it.
The Mizukage managed to perform a water wall in front of his forces near him and so ager amount of satisfaction coursed through his being as he noted so of his ninjas doing the sa as the water from the sea rose, creating a shield for the Kiri ninjas from the fire.
Despite the wall being primarily made by the more experienced and stronger water-oriented ninjas of Kiri forces, when the flathrower-like stream of fire from the Toad impacted the Water Wall, sizzling noise erupted from the connection and the superheated flas started to boil the water almost instantly while making steam from the most of it. The remaining parts however were blasted onto the Kiri front-liners by the pressure and whichever poor sucker who was hit started screaming bloody murder when it landed on his skin, severely burning it.
Chaos instantly erupted as those people that were hit with the boiling water started thrashing around, running into ninjas around them which started a chain reaction of people bumping into each other. So lost concentration and stopped using water-walking, falling into the water. So just got disoriented and panicked. But the worst were those that lost focus on maintaining the Water Wall...
As that happened, the fla stream finally breached through it and the Mizukage could only jump back with wide eyes, out of the range of the fire stream while watching quite a lot of his n being torched as instead of the Wall of Water, an orange flas started influencing the water, making the sea in front of him boil. Only a very few ninjas in the front lines managed to avoid the flas or the fate of being boiled alive as the stream of burning oil swept through them. It was only Mizukage's chakra sensing that made him aware he just lost around a hundred and fifty n and a mont of surprise.
He stood in front of his remaining few thousand n, looking at the shore beyond the wall of flas while slowly starting to regret pressing for the invasion to continue. Luckily, Hino stood next to him, panting from slight exertion and a small burn on her right forearm but clearly alive. Despite that, the Mizukage instantly knew his plan failed.
He was not about to give up though and would try to press on. Raising his hand about to give an order to use a water-style collaboration Jutsu to put down the Wall of Fire burning on the water, separating them from the land, suddenly a booming voice reverberated through the area.
"You want to invade the Land of Fire!? Then co and face your death!"
The Mizukage instantly recognized the voice of the Third Hokage and paled, realizing that winning just beca a hundred tis harder. But he had no ti to consider it as a hail of sharp tal started raining on his forces.
The battle of the northern shores of the Land of Fire... started.
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